《环球时报》英文版 文章 Local billboard crackdown results in doubts from
advert companies
Global Times
October
25, 2011，By Xu Tianran
A crackdown on advertising billboards in Qingdao,
Shandong Province, meant to eliminate visual pollution before the 2014 Horticultural
Expo has lead to doubts about government procedure for such events, according
to the Beijing-based financial news website caixin.cn Monday.
The crackdown,
which started in December 2010, aims to remove all billboards that could be considered
unattractive.
However, the local government has not made a standard to define
visual pollution except to announce it would clear up the less eye-pleasing boards
and promote a good visual effect and elegant view of the city.
Despite the fact
most of the advertisements were approved by city authorities, 23 legal advertisement
boards, which make up 30 percent of the total number of boards in the city, were
demolished.
The demolitions finally led to a confrontation on Friday, in which
an employee of an advertisement company suffered a broken nose during a beating.
The the city government is unavailable for comment Monday.
The Haoyue advertisement
company, which is the employer of the beaten man, received a notice from the local
district administrative and law enforcement bureaus on September 5 ordering them
to demolish the board within three days.
The company appealed for an administrative
review of the case on September 20. But, before the review procedure was finished,
their board was already gone.
Several big companies intend to sue the local
governments, but fear they will get the same result as Haoyue, according to caixin.cn.
On
October 10, the local government department issued a document, in which it is
stated there are three ways to deal with users of legal boards which are compensation,
replacement of the boards and cancelling administrative approval for using the
board.
However, all advertisement companies told Caixin they directly received
a letter telling them their permits were cancelled without any forms of negotiation.
"If
the boards had legal approval from government authorities, the companies have
a right to request a hearing, appeal for a review of the cases and even administrative
litigation," Zhu Shouquan, a lawyer with the Beijing Changji Law Firm, told
the Global Times.
"Local government should take opinions from companies
and stakeholders to let them realize the meaning of government action. Otherwise,
in the long run, it compromises the local government's credibility," Zhu
suggested Monday.
中译文：
当地拆除广告牌引起广告公司的质疑
《环球时报》英文版
2011年10月25日 记者：徐天然
据总部设在北京的金融新闻网站财新网caixin.cn星期一报道，山东青岛拆除广告牌，旨在2014年世界园艺博览会前消除视觉污染，这一事件已引起对政府在处理此类事件的程序上的质疑。
从2010年12月开始的这项拆除，目的是清除所有可能被认为缺乏吸引力的广告牌。
然而，除了宣布会清除不是赏心悦目的广告牌，提高良好的视觉效果和美化城市景观，当地政府还没有制定一个标准来定义视觉污染。
尽管事实上大部分的广告都是经过城市管理当局批准的，占全城广告牌总数30%的23个合法的广告牌被拆毁。
拆除最终导致了上周五的对抗，其中一个广告公司的雇员在殴斗期间被打断了鼻梁。
星期一没有能得到市政府对此事的评论。
被打男子所在的皓月广告公司，9月5日从本地的区行政执法局收到一个通知，限令他们在三天之内拆除广告牌。
9月20日该公司请求对此事进行行政复议。但是，复议程序完成之前，他们的广告牌就没有了。
据财新网报道，几家大公司打算起诉地方政府，但是担心他们会得到与皓月公司相同的结果。
10月10日当地政府部门下发文件，里面说明有三种方式来处理用户的合法广告牌，即赔偿、更换广告牌和取消对所使用的广告牌的行政审批。
然而，所有的广告公司告诉“财新网”，他们直接收到了一封信，告诉他们许可证被取消，没有任何协商的余地。
“如果广告牌获得了政府机关的合法批准，广告公司有权要求举行听证会、提出复议、甚至行政诉讼，”，北京长济律师事务所律师朱寿全告诉环球时报记者。
“当地政府应听取公司和利益相关者的意见，让他们认识到政府的行动的意义，否则，从长远来看，它损害了当地政府的公信力。”朱律师在星期一建议。
原载http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/680680/Local-billboard-crackdown-results-in-doubts-from-advert-companies.aspx
长济主任律师